Wednesday, January 19, 2011

As some of you probably know, I am currently studying at the University of Arts in Zurich at the photography department. I just finished my first semester, which included an exhibition of our work at the end of the semester. We get one theme every semester and in the end we have to come up with an idea and produce a work (loosely) based on that theme. This semester's theme was "dream, beauty and fun", which are synonyms for our consumer society. I made a photo series about Swiss fashion designer Tran Hin-Phu and followed him during the preparations for his fashion show at the Fashion Days Zurich 2010 back in November. I filmed a little walkthrough of the exhibition with everyone's work that you can watch here. The video below shows my work self-printed as a zine with the lovely help of Lisa Mettier.

Nice! I really like how you chose something that shows not only "dream, beauty, and fun" but also showed the consumerism you talked about, like when you showed the Paul Mitchell booth or the woman peering in through the window and then the people watching at the show.

Congratulations on the zine! You must have got a lot of positive feedback on this project. I think you encompassed the brief perfectly because fashion is the epitome of consumerism. Its creative and beautiful but there is also a very dark and dangerous side to it.

I love that no page is wasted. Every image holds its own integrity without the support of being in a collection! Which is what modern fashion photographers take for granted when they have digital cameras.

Setting in the "propädeutikum" at ZhdK this february. I'm among many reflections what I want to do in my nearly future. And my reflections are covered with dreams. You're stunnig photo work let me immerse into big dreams. Thanks.

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